Hey Dave. I’ll have a chance to answer this post but I’ll be up north for the weekend so will have to wait until I get back to continue. I’ll make it a point to check how many readings are used for psoriasis category.
By the way you’re absolutely right, sometimes they didn’t know if something was confirmed a disease, and tried to put it in the closest category. I’m quite sure the majority of people were independentantly diagnosed by physicians because most came to him as a last resort after conventional methods failed.
I do know most of the ones I read either confirm the disease either prior to Cayce’s reading, or after when they tried to verify his reading. Actually quite a few didn’t bother verifying or following the reading and consequently after following up on them the A.R.E. would find many had later “discovered” the disease and had now passed on. Some people in other quarters could accuse Cayce of “mind programming” the person to get the disease I suppose. 
But I don’t buy that.
Naturally this is harder to pin down simple categories, and that is why the A.R.E tries to give a general overview on all the either confirmed or suspected cases when suggesting possible treatment regimens. They try to suggest whatever had the highest statistical frequency as more central to a plan, and suggest you interpret other facets based on your personal situation.
By the way, I don’t know if you read this specific link, but it was quite thorough in covering both the conventional view of psoriasis along with Cayce’s. A great deal of what you’ve said is listed here. also they mention the 5? different types of psoriases, which is why they were uncertain sometimes if it was considered part of that category. Holistic Health Database | Edgar Cayce's A.R.E.
I just discovered that there IS a division of the A.R.E. called the HRRC that focuses on doing research on the medical readings. It must be new as I don’t recall it before.
I’m looking forward to the web page. It would be interesting to see an in-depth report especially based on someone suffering from the condition. Curious, where are you? Canada, America?
So about his consistency, that’s the question. Sometimes there were many people with the same confirmed disease that Cayce would still suggest different treatments for. That’s why he would commonly say “for this body”, or “in this particular case”, etc. Everything depended on an individual response to therapy, but there was still a natural consensus on a basic plan designed to put back in balance the body for most conditions.
Only the conditions that had maybe 2-4 reading in entirety might seem odd if they had completely different methods because there wasn’t enough of them to see patterns, but most of the common diseases are quite consistent in approach.
Yes I wonder if back then the line between some skin conditions was a little grayer… It does make it difficult to relate properly as it was a completely different era. What’s interesting though is how well his basic guidelines for such things as diet, and other common sense ideas are now commonly accepted knowledge, but were either unknown or very controversial at the time. Anyway I’m getting off topic.
I have to say that for one condition that my mother has, the methods he gave were very helpful to her. She has had trigeminal neuralgia for over 10 years now, and it’s a pretty nasty one. I don’t know if you’re familiar with it, but it’s described as the worst pain known to man. It’s when the trigeminal nerve is inflammed and causes attacks of severe sharp agony in people’s face that is very disabling, and unfortunately too strong to be even touched by analgesics.
She was pretty bad when it started, and she was allergic to Tegretol, the drug of choice, as well as the other alternatives and so was pretty well left only with surgery as an option which she was adament against.
So I checked to see if Cayce had said anything on this condition, and there were at least 2 confirmed cases, and a couple others thrown in as possibles. One of the absolutely confirmed cases really caught my attention, because she was cured and lived until about 84? if I remember correctly.
This is very strange as like some other diseases, it can go into periods of remission, but they always get shorter and shorter until the condition worsens in both intensity and frequency. It is considered incurable. So this lady responded very well to the treatments, and if there were relapses due to her not following instructions well, especially in regard to stress, she would get check readings and get further tailored instructions. These were naturally the most interesting, and usually the most impressive in terms of outcome.
So after seeing her improvements and eventual freedom from the condition, I talked my mother into trying the basis of these treatments. Unfortunately my mother is about as consistent at things as I am, and we still did a very half-assed form of treatment.
The good thing is though at the very least he gave a specific pack placed strategically on the spine that he claimed would give relief, and I have to say that it worked every time. So she was good at doing that end and would actually go pain free for days sometimes, but naturally she’d fall back into her old habits.
She did get long lasting relief when doing most of the whole protocol, and I wonder if she really affected the severity of the disease because it was early in beginning. She never got worse, and even now has nowhere near the severity or the frequency of the first couple years. So I was quite impressed with how well she responded to these treatments, especially as they stopped and started, and stopped and started, over and over again.
Naturally these things help you feel a little more confident that Cayce had something, especially when no one else gave anything even close as a possible treatment.
Got off topic again,
You have a great point about the elimination of the skin. I have no idea as to how the skin eliminates in detail. You would think that the places you sweat more would be the areas it would be obvious, and I can’t think of a reason why it wouldn’t be. I do know it is very small in percentage of the workload of elimination, less than 10% I believe.
Maybe the answer is that the places that eliminate more freely don’t cause the cell replication because its deposited outside the layers it would have been an irritant to. In other words maybe the easier flow pushes it onto te surface very easily, and then is consequenly washed off like normal. So what’s left are the other areas that don’t sweat easily and thus react strongly to the toxins. That’s about the ony guess I can come up with at the moment…
Lastly, the milk thistle. I’m wondering how accurate that medline is. I’ve seen quite a few references showing the studies of milk thistle. I’ll see if I can find a lot of the ones. Maybe you should do a search of the net and see where else they may be listed. I know you’ll get a lot of garbage to sift through, grin, but there are some gems among the crap.
Well I found something and the link explains it all. It’s from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality , and it’s a compilation of all the known studies. Apparently they’re plagued with the same problems as the other types of studies we’ve been looking at, although still encouraging. Yet no conclusive evidence yet although they think that’s more poorly designed studies, and unstandardized dose and active constituents. Anyhow, this is it:
http://www.ahcpr.gov/clinic/milktsum.htm
I guess this is where you could be the guinea pig if you decided to give it a shot. If you ever do, make certain it’s standardized. Another difficult thing with herbs is that according to consumer’s report, a lot of brands don’t even contain what they claim.
The best brand that was also confirmed by consumer’s report as always meeting their claims is Enzymatic Therapy, or Phytopharmica. The second name is the line they have for naturopaths even though it’s identical to the other line, just different labels on the bottles and different names. Why I don’t know.
If you are a Canadian, then the best available brand and much cheaper as well is Herbal Factors, or Natural Factors depending on what he product is. Same company. They are also quite impressive in quality control, their website explains their facilities and process.
So I’ll check the CD Rom at home Monday night and see if they all fall in that category or if there is more as well. Talk to you later and have a good weekend.